Food News Round-Up: Booze in the Air

by Michael Y. Park

on 04/17/09 at 09:33 AM

Domino's pranksters fall: A pair of nasty-minded Domino's workers
who videotaped one of them stuffing the pizzeria's cheese up his nose
and putting his mucus on sandwiches have been identified by the
blogosphere and arrested. Another point for YouTube vigilantism.

It's in the air: A London pub cuts out all that digestive work and has you breathe in liquor through cocktails vaporized into the air.

What? No tikka masala?! The Times of London publishes its list of the Top 10 Quintessential English Foods, ignoring mobs of curry shops and the British invention chicken tikka masala for old standards like
Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and, yes, fish and chips.

Maybe they swore never to let a woman come between them: A Louisiana man stabs his brother in a fight over ... a can of beans.

Then what's in the Filet-O-Fish? World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says that the world's fishing fleets waste half of their catch because they pick up non-targeted species and they're not paying heed to sustainability.

Don't drink the lhassi: Some 1,500 farmers in Indian commit mass suicide
after a crop failure. The state of Chattisgarh has seen record water
shortages, and many are now in seemingly inescapable debt to
moneylenders.

And for dessert, I'll have the McMuffin: Is it the recession and the new frugality? Is it the comfort-food thing? For whatever reason, breakfast items may be the new hot thing on dinner menus.

Tag-out for Burger King: The fast-food company nixes an advertising campaign that featured a tall American in cowboy garb next to a short, squat Mexican in wrestling garb that included the Mexican flag. Mexico, needless to say, was not amused.

I am sure you understand the problem isn't with the Jonestown reference, rather the cavalier way in which you report a dire situation where farmers with failed crops have chosen death over indebtedness. If 1,500 U.S. farmers killed themselves would you have attempted such a whimsical innuendo?

jackiecat
10:23:40 PM on
04/19/09

I don't often post here, but the insensitivity of making light of mass suicides is too much

AlysO
11:44:18 AM on
04/18/09

I'm with britita! I am disappointed as I don't think of you as being so insensitive.

michaelypark
04:25:48 PM on
04/17/09

Still too soon for Jonestown refs?

britita
03:13:10 PM on
04/17/09

Don't drink the lhassi?? This is how you report a mass suicide of 1,500 Indian farmers?? I am incredibly disappointed in such insensitive and ignorant food reporting. Shame on you.